HAITI: First-Hand Accounts (A Video Essay)
Posted on: January 29, 2010
Nearly 45,000 Americans lived in Haiti, until the catastrophic earthquake two weeks ago. And, Haitian-Americans are still being flown home, however, not always by choice. The U.S. State Dept. implemented an evacuation of all U.S. passport holders. The many who are relieved to end their ordeal, coming home, first means being repatriated. These are some first thoughts when they touched down stateside, 11 days after the earthquake.




January 31st, 2010 at 11:53 am
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January 31st, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Thank you for putting up this news piece.
I find this longer piece with its more extensive interview a much better way to provide news on this Haitian crisis than the constant, repetitive stories from the networks and cable news channels.